How to export from Anobii and import to Goodreads

Anobii is a fairly popular book community, that sadly is losing out to Goodreads. When most of your bookworm friends are on Goodreads, you might want to move your book shelf, ratings, reviews and other info to Goodreads. This is fairly easy to achieve.

Export from Anobii

Login to Anobii. Go to Settings -> Export Data. Select the format as CSV and Submit.

You will receive an email in a few minutes with a CSV file attached. Download this file and rename it as anobii.csv.

Convert from Anobii to Goodreads

To convert between the export format of Anobii and import format of Goodreads, we use the Anobii2Goodreads script. Git clone it or download the code:

$ git clone https://github.com/tijs/Anobii2Goodreads

Place the anobii.csv in the directory containing the anobii-to-goodreads.py script.

Perform the conversion, the output is written to import_to_goodreads.csv file:

$ python anobii-to-goodreads.py

Import to Goodreads

Login to Goodreads. Go to its import page and import the import_to_goodreads.csv file.

Refresh this page to see the import progress. I found that a few books from India, which had ISBN, could not be imported.

Go to your own update stream, you should be able to see all the imports. Do not worry, Goodreads only shows a few of these updates on your friends’ stream. I also found that the book status (unfinished or reading) was not entered correctly. This I had to batch edit to fix them.